Shame really, instructing just before the covid outbreak was finally starting to pay some decent/survivable salaries at certain establishments.
While ME/IR instructors have always received reasonable to good money, several of the large schools has started offering SEP IRI salaries in the region of 35 to 40K a year plus benefits on top, the overall packages with the joining bonus were over >40k a year.
Still below the Jet FO salaries but better than most turboprop FO gigs (Blue Island only pay the ATR Captains about 40k) a year. .
However I suspect a sudden influx of FIs (from fresh qualifiers) and those from the Airlines coming back to revalidate will soon see these terms eroded back to the flight pay only deals of before.